英和和英

動詞

make garden (三人称単数 現在形 makes garden, 現在分詞 making garden, 過去形および過去分詞形 made garden)

1. (idiomatic, dated, US, Canada) To plant or maintain a garden, especially a vegetable garden.

   Synonym: garden

   • 1852, Susanna Moodie, Roughing it in the Bush; or, Life in Canada, London: Richard Bentley, Volume 2, Chapter 8, p. 142,^[1]

     As the spring advanced, and after Jacob left us, he seemed ashamed of sitting in the house doing nothing, and therefore undertook to make us a garden, or “to make garden” as the Canadians term preparing a few vegetables for the season.

   • 1877, John Habberton, The Jericho Road; A Story of Western Life, Chicago: Jansen, McClurg, Chapter 3, p. 32,^[2]

     “Can you take care of horses?”

     “Yes.”

     “Make garden?”

     “Yes—I always took care of mother’s.”

   • 1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Chapter 18, p. 146,^[3]

     […] Ántonia and her mother were making garden, off across the pond in the draw-head.

   • 1955, Julia Montgomery Street, Fiddler’s Fancy, New York: Follett, Chapter 8, p. 67,^[4]

     Crossing a ridge, he was happy to see that Miz’ Doanie and her three children were all out making garden.

   • 1972, Henry W. Clune, The Rochester I Know, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Chapter 12, p. 163,^[5]

     In the other century, and for a considerable number of years in this one, the solid citizenry of the town prided itself on home ownership [...]. One got a little place, planted a couple of fruit trees and a currant bush out back, made garden, seeded a lawn, and put a standing lamp on a center table in the living room.